Getting mother's body
Subtitle: a novel
By: Suzan-Lori Parks.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction.; Treasure trove -- Fiction.; Poor families -- Fiction.; Texas -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Learning that a company plans to dig up the area where her mother is buried, supposedly with a cache of jewels, Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, heads for Arizona to rescue her mother's body and search for the jewels that could bring her a new life.